De Medicina

De Medicina
By Celsus
Edited by: W. G. Spencer (trans.)

Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition).

Digital Hippocrates Collection Table of Contents


A. Cornelii Celsi De Medicina
   Prooemium

Liber I

Liber II
   PROOEMIUM

Liber III

Liber IV

Liber V

Liber VI

Liber VII
   PROOEMIUM

Liber VIII

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Liber VII

PROOEMIUM

 [p. 468] eadem vena idem fit; quae quo tendat, facile hamulo extento cognoscitur. Ubi iam idem, quacumque varices sunt, factum est, uno loco adducta per hamulum vena praeciditur, deinde qua proximus hamus est, adtrahitur evellitur ibique rursus absciditur. Ac sic undique varicibus crure liberato plagarum orae committuntur et super emplastrum glutinans inicitur.


32 At si digiti vel in utero protinus, vel propter communem exulcerationem postea cohaeserunt, scalpello diducuntur; dein separatim uterque non pingui emplastro circumdatur atque ita per se uterque sanescit. Si vero fuit ulcus in digito posteaque male inducta cicatrix curvum eum reddidit, primum malagma temptandum est; deinde, si id nihil prodest (quod et in veteri cicatrice et ubi nervi laessi sunt evenire consuevit) videre oportet, nervine id vitium an cutis sit. Si nervi sit, attingi non debet: neque enim sanabile est: si cutis, tota cicatrix excidenda, quae fere callosa extendi digitum minus patiebatur; tum rectus sic ad novam cicatricem perducendus est.


33 Gangrenam inter ungues alasque aut inguina nasci, et si quando medicamenta vincantur, membrum praecidi oportere alio loco (V.26.34D) mihi dictum est. Sed id quoque cum periculo summo fit: nam saepe in ipso opere vel profusione sanguinis vel animae defectione moriuntur. Verum hic quoque nihil interest, an satis tutum praesidium